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=//__Amendment 26__//= = = = = =//__Amendment twenty six states that people over eighteen have the right to vote in the U.S and this right will not be denied by the United States__//.= = = = = = =
 * Amendment twenty six was proposed by congress on March 23, 1971. While this amendment was being created many wars were going on like World War 1 and World War 2.
 * This was the fourth amendment to clarify voting rights. The other three amendments were fifteen, nineteen, and twenty three.
 * Britain's Electoral Commission is recommending the national voting age be lowered from 18 to 16. Fifty percent said that the voting age should stay at eighteen while forty three percent favored that it should be changed to sixteen and only seven percent said it should be changed to seventeen.=[[image:http://www.cfaba.org/artwork/26th_Amendment_Pg1of1_AC.jpg width="315" height="360" align="left" caption="Amendment Twenty Six"]]=== === === = =
 * Britain's Electoral Commission is recommending the national voting age be lowered from 18 to 16. Fifty percent said that the voting age should stay at eighteen while forty three percent favored that it should be changed to sixteen and only seven percent said it should be changed to seventeen.=[[image:http://www.cfaba.org/artwork/26th_Amendment_Pg1of1_AC.jpg width="315" height="360" align="left" caption="Amendment Twenty Six"]]=== === === = =

[[image:http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/vote.jpg width="196" height="171" caption="A person over 18 years old putting their vote in a ballot"]]
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__**Q: Who wrote this amendment?**__
A: Congress

__**Q: When was it proposed? Ratified?**__
A: Proposed: March 23, 1971 Ratified: July 1, 1971

__Q: What inspired this amendment?__
A: The Vietnam Conflict

__**Q: What issues does it apply to today?**__
A: Some issues that it applies to are voting for office, and age debates

__**Q: What problems does this amendment make?**__
A: People are arguing over this amendment because people think that eighteen is not a mature age to vote.

__**Q: How is it helpful?**__
A: It helps make the election larger in population

**__Q: What was the Voting Rights Act of 1965?__**
A: It helped enforce the right to vote of and color or race and age of eighteen.

**__Q: Who endorsed the amendment of being 18 or over to vote?__**
A: Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson.

__**Q: What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 stop voters from doing?**__
A: It stopped would be voters from having to take a literacy test in order to vote.

=//__The Current Events__//=

__Jonah's:__ Youth Voices Heard in N.H. Primary Vote.
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080111/OPINION01/176134347/-1/opinion

According to the latest primary voting results in New Hampshire, voters younger then 30 years of age are steadly starting to use thier rights to vote more and more. In Iowa, in 2004 17% of the people under 30 were voting, and this year, 22% are voting now, with almost the same increase in N.H. Also, colleges have been supporting the "Whats Your Plan?" Campaign, which is trying to get more young people into the booths. And more people are hoping that political events such as in N.H. and in Iowa will happen aroung the country.

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__Andrew's:__ Should the Voting age be Lowered?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/12/view12.xml

People in the UK are thinking of changing the voting age to 16. Harriet Harman thinks it will encourage young people to start to vote more often, if at all to vote. The Deputy Leader of the Labour party and the Leader of the House of Commons say that they think some young people will never get into the habit of voting if the voting age isnt changed. Though some of the citizens still argue that 16 year-olds arent mature and shouldnt be allowed to vote at that age.

__Dan's:__ Younger Voters Roaring to Life.
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2835&u_sid=10230721

Lots of young voters are starting to vote in 2008. In Iowa and in N.H., people younger than 30 have been almost doubleing in vote counts since 2004. If these trends continiue, the people under 30 voting would rival that of the people in 1972, when the 26th Amendment kicked in and people could vote in the elections once 18. People in the Young Voter Pact have been texting young people who can vote in Iowa and N.H. to start to vote. Now young voters are starting to take action and finally start to vote.

http://149.101.1.32/crt/voting/intro/intro_b.htm http://www.youthvote.org/site1/info/26amendment.htm
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